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GDPR DATA PRIVACY NOTICE

This is privacy notice of Russell Grant Astrology Limited.

We respect your privacy and are determined to protect your personal data. The
purpose of this privacy notice is to inform you as to how we look after your
personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it
from). We'll also tell you about your privacy rights and how the data protection
law protects you.

What is the purpose of this privacy notice?
This privacy notice aims to give you information on how we collect and process
your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may
provide through this website when you purchase a product or service, request a
free reading/service, make a telephone or mobile booking or via a website, make
an appointment, submit a message, subscribe to a newsletter or promotion or take
part in a competition, prize draw or game.
This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data
relating to children. Users of this website should be over the age of 16
and use of some services are only applicable to over 18 year olds.
You must read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice we may
provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data
about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data.
This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to
override them.
Data controller(s)
Russell Grant Astrology Ltd is the controller and responsible for your personal
data (collectively referred to as "Russell Grant Astrology Ltd", "we", "us" or
"our" in this privacy notice). Our contact details are 3 Crewe Road, Sandbach,
Cheshire CW11 4NE. For all data matters contact Douglas Beaumont on
0161-784-0000
Third-party links outside of our control
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and
applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow
third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these
third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.
When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every
website you visit.

THE PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an
individual from which that person can be identified. You can find out more about
personal data from the Information Commissioners Office.
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about
you which we have grouped together follows:
- Identity Data includes Title, First name, Surname, Username, Gender, Date of
Birth.
- Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, telephone/mobile
numbers, email address.
- Special Categories of Personal Data includes sexual orientation, marital
status, place of birth, time of birth.
- We also collect, use and share aggregated data such as statistical or
demographic data
- We do not collect political opinions, trade union membership, information
about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any
information about criminal convictions and offences.

If you fail to provide personal data
Where we need to collect your personal data by law, or under the terms of a
contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we
may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with
you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may
have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if
this is the case at the time.

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
- Directly. You may give us your data by filling in forms or by corresponding
with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you
provide when you :
- Apply for our products or services;
- Create an account on our website;
- Subscribe to our service or publications;
- Request marketing to be sent to you.

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we
will use your personal data in the following circumstances :
- Performance of Contract this means processing your data where it is
necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take
steps at your request before entering into such a contract.

- Legitimate Interest this means the interest of our business in
conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best
service/product and the most secure experience. We make sure we consider and
balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights
before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use
your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the
impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or
permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our
legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific
activities by contacting us at vip@russellgrant.com

- Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation this means processing your
personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory
obligation that we are subject to.
GENERALLY WE DO NOT RELY ON CONSENT AS A LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING YOUR
PERSONAL DATA OTHER THAN IN RELATION TO SENDING THIRD PARTY DIRECT MARKETING
COMMUNICATIONS TO YOU VIA EMAIL OR TEXT MESSAGE. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO WITHDRAW
CONSENT TO MARKETING AT ANY TIME BY CONTACTING US AT VIP@RUSSELLGRANT.COM
PURPOSES FOR WHICH WE WILL USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We have set out below, a description of all the ways we plan to use your
personal data, with the legal bases we rely on to do so.
Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground
depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please
contact us at vip@russellgrant.com if you need details about the specific legal
ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one
ground has been set out below:

Purpose or Activity:
A. To register you as a new customer (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Special
Categories Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest:
Performance of a contract with you
B. To update your details with additional data for a product or
service/subscription (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Special Categories Lawful
basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest: Performance of a
contract with you
C. To provide you with a service, product or analysis (a) Identity (b) Contact
(c) Special Categories Lawful basis for processing including basis of
legitimate interest: Performance of a contract with you

Marketing
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses,
particularly around marketing and advertising.
WE HAVE ESTABLISHED THE FOLLOWING PERSONAL DATA CONTROL MECHANISMS:
Promotional offers from us
We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a
view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you.
This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for
you.
You will receive marketing communications from us if you have opted in to request information from us.
Third-party marketing
We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with
any company outside the COMPANY group of companies for marketing purposes.
Opting out
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any
time BY FOLLOWING THE OPT-OUT LINKS ON ANY MARKETING MESSAGE SENT TO YOU OR BY
EMAILING VIP@RUSSELLGRANT.COM AT ANY TIME.
Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to
personal data provided to us as a result of A PRODUCT/SERVICE PURCHASE, WARRANTY
REGISTRATION, PRODUCT OR SERVICE EXPERIENCE OR OTHER TRANSACTIONS.
Cookies
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you
when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please
note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function
properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our COOKIE
POLICY.
Change of purpose
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it,
unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that
reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an
explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the
original purpose, please email vip@russellgrant.com.
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify
you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or
consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted
by law.

WHO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA WITH
We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the
purposes set out in the table in paragraph 4 above.
- Internal Third Parties
- External Third Parties Services
- Providers
- Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers who
provide consultancy, banking, legal insurance and accountancy services.
- HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities based in the United
Kingdom, who require reporting of processing activities in certain
circumstances.
- Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our
business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses
or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may
use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and
to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service
providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them
to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our
instructions.

DATA SECURITY
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data
from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered
or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those
employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need
to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they
are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach
and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are
legally required to do so.

DATA RETENTION
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the
purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any
legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the
amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm
from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for
which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes
through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
By law we have to keep basic information about our customers including contact,
identity, financial and transaction data for six years after they cease being
customers for tax purposes.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see Your legal rights
below for further information.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no
longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which
case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
Unless subject to an exemption under the data protection laws, you have the
following rights with respect to your personal data:
- The right to request a copy of the personal data which we hold about you;
- The right to request that we correct any personal data if it is found to be
inaccurate or out of date;
- The right to request your personal data is erased where it is no longer
necessary to retain such data;
- The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time, where
consent was the lawful basis for processing your data;
- The right to request that we provide you with your personal data and where
possible, to transmit that data directly to another data controller, (known as
the right to data portability), where applicable i.e. where our processing is
based on consent or is necessary for the performance of our contract with you or
where we process your data by automated means);
- The right, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or
processing of your personal data, to request a restriction is placed on further
processing;
- The right to object to our processing of personal data, where applicable
i.e. where processing is based on our legitimate interests (or in performance of
a task in the public interest/exercise of official authority); direct marketing
or processing for the purposes of scientific/historical research and
statistics).
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact
vip@russellgrant.com

No fee required - with some exceptions
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any
of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable admin fee if your
request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may
refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
What we may need from you
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your
identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any
of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data
is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also
contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to
speed up our response.
Time limit to respond
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it
may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you
have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you
updated.

CHANGES TO THIS NOTICE AND YOUR DUTY TO INFORM US OF CHANGES
This version was last updated on 25th May 2018.
Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship
with us. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate
and current.

QUERIES, REQUESTS OR CONCERNS
To exercise all relevant rights, queries or complaints in relation to this
policy or any other data protection matter between you and us, please in the
first instance contact vip@russellgrant.com